I've wondered about the security aspects of changing the hashing function..

Whilst I acknowledge that possibly a security risk is posed from the order of items retrieved from a hash.. I can't actually think of any practical areas where randomising the hash function actually assists.

Surely if someone is putting together a hash that is at risk of attack then they should filter the data somehow?

Wouldn't a more fixed hashing function be of greater benefit.. are there any programmers today who take advantage of the order in which the hash is output consistantly across executions?

note this is just a musing.. not an actual Perl change-request..

update: Thanks for the replies below, very informative!

In reply to Re^2: using values and keys functions by monarch
in thread using values and keys functions by jim_neophyte

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